{"id":818,"date":"2011-03-18T09:09:21","date_gmt":"2011-03-18T17:09:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vidhero.wordpress.com\/?p=818"},"modified":"2011-03-18T09:09:21","modified_gmt":"2011-03-18T17:09:21","slug":"gun-loco-become-clans-of-the-alphane-moon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.solidfuelstudios.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/18\/gun-loco-become-clans-of-the-alphane-moon\/","title":{"rendered":"Gun Loco …become: Clans of the Alphane Moon?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Read this sad story of Gun Loco’s cancellation over at gamasutra<\/a> (always sorry to hear the work is being abandoned, and a likely huge team of developers is seeing their baby killed).<\/p>\n

First thought was : they should rebrand the game as an adaptation of “Clans of the Alphane Moon<\/a>“! (old philip k dick novel, about a moon that has been taken over by the remnants of an insane asylum, but is basically a key launching ground for either side of the war between humans and insectoid aliens. Each faction on this moon is based on a particular psychosis. So it’s a Psycho-Planet instead of a Prison-planet?).<\/p>\n

Who wouldn’t love to see a retro-hip take on psychotic clan warfare (Which clan will you choose: the manic depressive flash gordons, or the paranoid schizophrenic buck rogers? perhaps the manslaughtering Doc Savages? maybe the hebrephenian rocketeers? ).
\nWho wouldn’t love scifi-fantasy-pulp take on the gory-as-hell shooter?<\/p>\n

And as a fan of the novel, i’ve love to see gameplay based around the remote-controlled synthetics, who are CIA spies going undercover on the planet as doctors\/negotiators. And of course a menu system based around the “telepathic Ganymedean slime mold” side kick character idea.<\/p>\n

…<\/p>\n

but then i dug up a trailer<\/a> and realized the game has a “wacky hip” cartoony vibe that wouldn’t fit at all. All the wrong music and voice acting. oof.<\/p>\n

(sorry to ramble randomly off into la-la land with all this, just wanted to record a suggestion that will almost certainly go no-where. Because it got me excited).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

…Who wouldn’t love scifi-fantasy-pulp take on the gory-as-hell shooter?…… Continue reading Gun Loco …become: Clans of the Alphane Moon?<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,16],"tags":[95,196,216,347,354,367,373,408],"class_list":["post-818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ideas","category-video-game","tag-clans-of-the-alphane-moon","tag-gamasutra","tag-gun-loco","tag-philip-k-dick","tag-planet","tag-prison","tag-psychosis","tag-shooter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.solidfuelstudios.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.solidfuelstudios.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.solidfuelstudios.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.solidfuelstudios.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.solidfuelstudios.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.solidfuelstudios.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/818\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.solidfuelstudios.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.solidfuelstudios.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.solidfuelstudios.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}